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If there's one thing the digital revolution has taught us, it's that we shouldn't get too attached to anything. Technology has a way of seizing long-held ideas and entrenched industries and turning them upside-down.

Last week's billion-dollar acquisitions by Oracle and Sun jolted the middleware market, and raised some new concerns for enterprises pursuing service-oriented architecture deployments and considering the use of open source code to flesh them out.

SugarCRM plans to ship the beta version of Sugar 5.0 next month, an upgrade to its open-source customer relationship management software that should make it easier for companies to extend the product with third-party applications, company executives said Wednesday.

IBM is porting Lotus Sametime to Linux, the first time this enterprise instant messaging platform will support the popular open source operating system.

Linux will become the dominant OS for Oracle databases by 2007, displacing Solaris, according to a new survey from the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG). But just by a smidge -- 44 percent will run on Linux by then, versus 43 percent on Solaris. Of the users who responded to the survey, 34 percent planned database migrations in the coming year. "This forecast marks a definitive tipping point for Linux," trumpeted the press release.

Google revamped its enterprise search devices on Wednesday when it announced a new version of its Google Mini for small and medium-sized businesses and an upgrade to its Search Appliance for larger organizations.

Looking to seize the mantle of SOA leadership, BEA Chairman and CEO Alfred Chuang at the BEAWorld conference on Tuesday declared BEA to be the world's leader in enabling SOAs.

Oracle President Charles Phillips opened Oracle's largest user show to date with a keynote address that avoided controversial topics like Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft and focused instead on a high level overview of Oracle's vision for flexible, integrated IT systems.

The end may be in sight in the ongoing saga of Oracle's hostile takeover bid for embattled competitor PeopleSoft.

Having established a firm foothold in the server market and a cult-like following among programmers, the Linux open-source operating system has set its sights on a new target: the cash register.

Microsoft plans to use its 10th annual TechEd developer conference this week in New Orleans to advance its cause in the battle pitting the software behemoth against Sun Microsystems and its partners over Web services.